Engineering Manager - Code Plane [M3]

About the role

The Code Plane team owns the Sourcegraph products that help developers - and the agents working on their behalf - take action on code, at scale, on the world's largest codebases. This is a team that builds products that use AI and products for AI. The roadmap, the architecture, and the day-to-day technical decisions all hinge on a solid experience with and a clear-eyed view of what AI models and agents are good at, where they fail, and how to design products around them.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with your direct reports through 1:1s, understand each person's strengths, goals, and current projects, and set a steady cadence for team meetings, planning, and retros.
• Get hands-on with the team's surface area — Batch Changes, MCP, Code Monitors, Code Insights, src CLI — by running them as a user and an agent would, and form a point of view on the most important product and technical bets to make next.
• Meet your cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Solutions Engineering, and adjacent engineering teams, and start translating customer feedback into a concrete view of what the team should ship.
• Own the team's roadmap and weekly execution: scope and sequence work across multiple product surfaces, set clear expectations for ownership, and unblock the team early and often.
• Ship meaningful work with the team and use the outcomes to refine how the team plans and prioritizes.
• Give direct, useful feedback on performance and career growth, and help reports articulate their own goals for impact and personal development.
• Be fully accountable for the operational, people, and roadmap aspects of Code Plane, and a strong technical voice on architecture, quality, and product trade-offs.
• Have established a culture and a set of team practices — planning, code review, decision-making, on-call where relevant — that make the team consistently effective.
• Be known across the company as the person who deeply understands what customers and agent ecosystems need from Code Plane, and where Sourcegraph should invest next.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to develop the next set of ambitious goals that your org should work towards.
• Develop a clear technical and execution strategy to achieve that next set of goals.

Requirements

• 3+ years managing a team of professional software engineers, with experience running the full performance cycle: hiring, onboarding, feedback, career growth, and managing out when necessary.
• A strong IC background (IC4-equivalent), with the ability to provide technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and trade-offs, and the ability to write high quality code when it becomes necessary to jump in.
• Proven experience leading teams that build end-user product features — ideally developer tools, agent/AI products, CLIs, or other technical product surfaces.
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Design to take features from idea to shipped, and incorporating customer feedback into the roadmap.
• Customer-facing experience: discovery calls, design partnerships, incorporating feedback loops into a roadmap.
• Experience shipping products consumed by or built for AI agents (MCP servers, agent SDKs, agentic dev tooling, agent-friendly CLIs).
• Hands-on experience using and reasoning about coding agents (Amp, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar), with strong opinions about what good looks like when humans and agents share a workflow.
• Async-first communication skills and experience working in a globally distributed remote team.

Qualifications

• Fluency with the kind of stack the Code Plane team works in: Go, TypeScript/React (and ideally SvelteKit), GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and a multi-service environment.
• Experience with developer tools, code intelligence, code search, or large-scale code transformation/refactoring products.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, or "signals over code" products (e.g., security scanners, lint platforms, code-quality tools).
• Experience designing and shipping CLIs that are pleasant for both humans and agents to use.

Benefits

We pay you an above-average salary because we want to hire the best people who are fully focused on helping Sourcegraph succeed, not worried about paying bills. You will have the flexibility to work and live anywhere in the world (unless specified otherwise in the job description), and we’ll never take your current/past salary information into account when determining your compensation. As an open and transparent company that values equitable and competitive compensation for everyone, our compensation ranges are visible to every single Sourcegraph Teammate. To determine your salary, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources and target the high-end of the range, ensuring that we’re always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world.

Pay

The target compensation for this role is - Zone 2: $ 192,000 USD base - Zone 3: $ 144,000 USD base - Zone 4: $ 96,000 USD base

Schedule

In addition to our cash compensation, we offer equity (because when we succeed as a company, we want you to succeed, too) and generous perks & benefits.